For taking interior property photos a wide angle lens is a must. I don't know what more I can say about that.  So I bought a wide angle lens.  I was so excited when it came, I couldn't wait to use it.

It is a heavy lens. A 12-24 Tokina, that weighs 10 pounds.  That is an exaggeration but it is heavy enough so that sometimes I leave it at home. It was also expensive and for about a year all I have used to for is property shots. I wanted to get more out of it. A friend convinced me that a wide angle lens can be fun.   What is fun about having a lens that has to be held level and works best close up?

So I put the dang thing on my camera and left it on for a few days and made myself use it. On some of the photos I straightened the converging verticals and cropped off the distortion that occurs on each end of the shot when the lens is set as wide as it can go and on some I did not.  I guess I am learning to like the lens of at least I am learning to get the most out of it. They are not cheap.

The lens is noce for shooting long trains. . . yah I know that doesn't come up very often unless you live by the river in St. Paul like I do.

I thought it would be fun to shoot a whole street so I did in the most colorful part of St. Paul, District Del Sol. It is a little distorted on one side but what the heck.

Taken from the river side of the science museum of Minnesota. The shot doesn't wow me but I have to admit I could not have gotten the building and the maze with any of my other lenses.

For this one I deliberatly took it at a wierd angle, just for fun. It is the Ordway Theater in downtown St. Paul.

Again with this one I chose an angle just for the heck of it. 

I guess I will keep playing with it. If you own a wide angle lens for your business, take it out and play with it sometime. I still think it is more fun to use when my husband is with me and carries the camera bag.